Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson!  This is our last episode of 2023, and to celebrate the end of an eventful year and beginning of another, we will discuss some of the highlights and downfalls of the past year. We will be diving into what created some of the highest of the highs and lowest of the lows. If you had the year of your life, cheers! If this is a year that proved to be incredibly difficult for you, then we hope this episode is exactly what you need at this time. We aren’t here to sugarcoat anything, but we also don’t want to fill the episode with dread and sourness.

For this bonus episode of saucy gems and bittersweet convos we will be joined by journalist and podcaster Sevanny Campos! Sevanny is the host of the podcast Major League Deals she co-hosts with another former guest of Saucy but Sweet, Korey Matthews.

Follow Sevanny Campos @SevannyCampos on IG and Twitter.

Listen to the end to hear a mini end of year segment featuring some of our former guests.

Cheers!

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Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson! We are back for a bonus episode. While the podcast has been on season break our host has had her ear to the pavement, not just as a journalist but a woman who just can’t pass away good tea.

 Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard about the whole Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith debacle.  You may remember the episode, “The Other Side of a Slap” from season 3 where the host talked about Will slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars.

Well, this week, the host will be discussing Will and Jada once again but this time less about the slap and more about their marriage on the rocks and what her controversial book tour for her book titled “Worthy” exposes about modern marriage at large. The host will be joined by the fabulous Keturah Kendrick for the second time this season. Keturah is a freelancer and author of the book, “No Thanks, Black Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone.”

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 Saucy but Sweet fam we are back with our season finale and Part II of our conversation about all things Pride, whether it be, some of our favorite moments at Pride and what makes this month one of the most significant months of the year. For Part I, the host spoke to Terrence Fraser about businesses taking a hit for supporting pride, and this week the host continues the convo with Sage Anderson (he/they), who is a Rolling Stone editor and friend to the podcast. Sage and the host get into it with laughs, jokes, and honest conversation that will make you want to run straight to a pride event and have a night on the town. Afterwards the host features an up-and-coming R&B artist for this week’s Saucy but Sweet Tune of the Week. 

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We are back, and just in time for one of the most significant and important months of the year. This is the month that marks the beginning of summer, where we celebrate Juneteenth and of course the month where we celebrate and applaud the LGBTQ+ community for standing up for what is right. This month all over the world Pride parades take place, not just filled with those in the LGBTQ+ community but with allies who feel a deep tie to the community. The best thing about this month is that no matter where you come from, or what language you speak, we are all uniting for a group that is constantly under attack and choosing to stand beside them rather than judging or simply turning away when the conversations get a bit too close for comfort. This week, for part 1 of Joy is Still Resistance, the host will be chatting with the fabulous Terrence Fraser (he/him) who is a journalist who alongside the host attended the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and is currently an associate producer for Zero Point Zero. Later on, the host will feature an up-and-coming R&B soul artist for this week’s Saucy but Sweet Tune of the Week. 

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Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week you all are in for quite a treat once again. As you know festival season is in full flux! During our most recent episode, the host spoke with Yasmine Jameelah about the beauty of festival season and talked about making the exciting trek to the world's most popular festivals. The trip was a success, such a success that the host decided to dedicate another episode to the best and worst moments of Coachella. Just as there were highs, there were also lows, as some who have been paying attention to the latest coverage know about.

The host traveled to Coachella with a few talented and amazing journalists, some writing for outlets like the Root, Cosmopolitan and Rolling Stone. To discuss all that went down during weekend 1 of the festival, the host will be joined by the fabulous Sage Anderson (he/they) who is a tech editor for Rolling Stone Magazine. Towards the end of the episode we will hear live footage from the festival for Sage’s top performances. 

Correction: R&B singer H.E.R. curates Lights Out Festival. It has taken place in California and New York City.

Live at Coachella montage, performances incorporated in the episode:

Porter Robinson

Chromeo

Magdalena Bay

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 Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week you all are in for quite a treat. It is Coachella season! I’m sure most of our listeners know all about the impactful and booming California music festival that has basically become a household name but for those of who do not know, it is a music festival, where artists who are the best of the best perform on a massive stage in front of thousands of fans. These fans come from all over the world to unite for their love of music, food and culture. It is essentially a party in the desert. Coachella Valley is where the magic happens.

 Unlike Vegas, what happens in Coachella does not stay in Coachella, it is packed with press people and style magazines for days. It’s as much about fashion and culture as it is about who is performing. We will be discussing not just what makes Coachella one of the most impactful festivals in the world, but other festivals that may be geared towards specific groups of people and why those festivals are impactful as well. There is AfroPunk, the Essence Fest, and so many others that many are buying tickets for as we speak. The summer is the season of festivals, and Coachella typically sets the scene. We will be joined by an incredible guest and friend to the podcast Yasmine Jameelah to talk about the significance of these festivals and later on in the episode the host will be including live footage and her favorite moments from Coachella weekend 1.

Live at Coachella montage, performances incorporated in the episode:

Becky G

Rosalia

Rosalia and Rauw Alejandro

Burna Boy

Bad Bunny

Frank Ocean

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Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson.  Here is something I’m sure every listener will be able to relate to: being a fan. Now there are various ways of being a fan; it could be simply keeping tabs on when you’re favorite artist drops a new album and immediately downloading every song, and going to every concert that artist performs, or ou could be a more extreme fam, who sets up a page dedicated to that artist and keeps tabs on what every single person says about that person online, taking matters into their own hands if they feel said artist is being disrespected. Does that sound like you? If not, what kind of fan are you? As a society we tend to put a lot of pressure on artists to be the type of artists that we want to emulate, and to switch it up, but also be the same person we fell in love with. That’s a lot to ask from people we know intimately, let alone people we never met. This week we are joined by multimedia journalist Bianca Rosemburt to discuss society’s pressure on celebs and how some take fandom too far. 

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Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard about the Will Smith/Chris Rock fiasco. Over a year ago after a poorly made joke by comedian Chris Rock, Will Smith slapped him across the face for the world to see at the Oscars in 2022. The host spoke with Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson podcast regular Sheneca Sharpe in an episode titled, “The Other Side of a Slap,” last year to discuss what went down and what this meant moving forward for the two Hollywood stars. This time around the host will be chatting with our recent guests and friends of the podcast Fiifi Frimpong and Kirk Cohall about Chris Rock’s new comedy special, aka the first time he is publicly speaking on the fiasco and what this means for comedy in the bigger sense. Are we becoming too woke and unable to truly handle a joke? Or do comedians need to get with the program and produce comedy that never offends others?

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